A former Tesla employee was charged by a Union grand jury today of embezzling close to $ 9.3 million from Elon Musk ’s electric elevator car company over the class of two years . The bill of indictment comes as the result of an FBI inquiry .
The employee , 32 - year - old Salil Parulekar , allegedly engaged in a scheme that involved diverting payment , distort invoices , identity theft , and impersonating an employee of one of Tesla ’s suppliers , according to the United States Attorney ’s Office for theNorthern District of Californiaon Thursday :
concord to the bill of indictment , Parulekar learned in January 2017 that Tesla had terminated its provider relationship with Schwabische Huttenwerke Automotive GmbH ( “ SHW ” ) . At the time of the termination , SHW had only provided a special turn of sampling products , specifically , motor pumps , to Tesla . Parulekar allegedly do it the termination meant that Tesla was keep back succeeding requital to SHW and that Parulekar was not authorized to contradict this decision . Notwithstanding these fact , Parulekar redirected a series of payments intended for another supplier , Hota Industrial Manufacturing Co. , Ltd. ( “ Hota ” ) , and cause them to be pay to SHW .
Parulekar is being charged with nine counts of telegram fraud and one tally of aggravated identity element theft . According to the DOJ , each count of wire put-on carries a maximum penalisation of 20 age in prison house and a $ 250,000 fine ; the maximum penalty for the aggravated individuality thievery heraldic bearing is two age in prison and a $ 250,000 mulct .
ALinkedIn pageappearing to go to Parulekar indicates someone by the same name worked for Tesla for more than four years , and , if the information present there is precise , continued to work there as recently as last December .
Tesla declined to comment .
[ Department of Justice ]
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